Jose Mourinho Plays Down Significance of his Latest Stamford Bridge Return.

 Jose mourinho played down the personal significance of Manchester United’s clash with Chelsea on Sunday and insisted his history with the London club will be forgotten.

Mourinho will make his fourth trip back to Stamford Bridge as an opposition manager, having previously faced his old club once with Inter Milan and twice last season with united.

Neither trip last term was a happy occasion for united, with Chelsea racing to a 4-0 win in the premier league and also winning 1-0 in the FA cup

Mourinho, who must travel to Spain on Friday to answer charges to tax fraud, said: “I have to admit it’s a little I did with inter. They want to win like they did last season and it’s just one more day.

“In a couple of years it will be even more natural and in four or five years probably no one will remember that I was Chelsea manager and it becomes absolutely normal.

“It isn’t a big thing. Its normal, its football, it’s professionalism. One day you are in one club, the next day you’re in another club.

“It’s a big thing because it’s a big match, because it’s a big opponent, because it’s champions. It’s one of these matches between the top teams in the country. But from the emotional point of view, it’s just one more game”.

Mourinho was prompted to hold his press conference a day earlier than normal because of his court date.

The Spanish authorities opened a case against the 54year-old in June for alleged tax evasion during his spell as Real Madrid boss. His representative said in June that Mourinho had fulfilled all his tax obligations in Spain.

Mourinho insisted it would not be a disruption ahead of one of the biggest games in the season, saying. “It’s just a change of normal training time because I cannot be here in the morning”.

Writing in his programme notes for Tuesday’s champion’s league clash with Benfica, the Portuguese addressed a pointed remark at fans, saying: “I hope that you enjoy the game more than some of you did against Tottenham”.

Mourinho insisted he did not want to stroke any more fires but believes United are being judged by different standard to other sides.

“I don’t want to comment,” said mourinho “sometimes I feel I could or I should but other times I cool down and think I shouldn’t and I’m not going to.

“I know it’s a different way of analysing things for this reason for that reason. Similar performance for some clubs are magic, are examples of brilliant tactics and amazing attitude of the players, and for other teams the same kind of performance becomes conservation, negative, so many objectives.

“Tottenham beat Liverpool 4-1, Tottenham beat Real Madrid 3-1, and Tottenham didn’t score against Manchester United. At least a little bit of credit my players deserve.